Would you follow this rule?

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Staying at a holiday house, the rules mention 'no food or drink to be taken upstairs' - would you follow it?

YABU - I'm on holiday, I'm having a cup of tea in bed and I'm old enough not to make a mess

YANBU - rules are rules, I'll do as I'm told

Breakfast in bed on Mothers Day did happen a handful of times when the kids were small. DH would never bring me food in bed for my birthday as neither of us like it. I have very very very occasionally got myself tea and gone back to bed, but I honestly can't remember the last time. I genuinely just prefer to have it at the kitchen table. It has a better view!

It's something I did in my room as a teen/student when I didn't have a whole place to myself. But it the last 30 years of being an independent adult with my own house, it's been a once a year event, if that.

I'd have a bottle of water because I often wake up during the night thirsty.

But otherwise, yes I'd follow it. I don't take food and drink to bed at home so wouldn't be doing it elsewhere.

To be honest, if I did run an Airbnb, that wouldn’t be a rule I’d have. But I respect other people’s right to decide on their own rules. I suppose I can’t imagine being so determined to have my tea and toast in bed at all costs. Maybe I should try it😅

Seeing how common it seems to be among young people to eat takeaways in bed on social media I can understand the rule but I would have to have water by my bed regardless

I’d be taking water, but at home we don’t have anything other than water or squash upstairs. Not as a rule, we just don’t.

I think most people have no issue with rules provided they are flagged upfront. It's trying to impose a rule after you've pocketed the cash that's unreasonable.

No I wouldn’t miss my coffee in bed for anyone. I wouldn’t eat in bed though. We’re always very careful to leave accommodation really clean afterwards, our friends rent out an Airbnb and have some absolutely horrendous problems. Things stolen, pulled off walls, smeared walls in the loo….absolutely awful.

No I wouldn't follow this rule, however I get thirsty at night so would mainly be water on the bedside table.
I wouldn't be bringing a curry up to bed anyway or even a tea as I think that's common sense when you are staying somewhere. When I'm up for the day I'm not usually hanging around the bedroom.

I would take a cup of tea and a biscuit upstairs, I wouldn't eat a meal up there. But I don't generally eat upstairs anyway so it would essentially be the same as I do at home anyway.

The UK Consumer Rights Act 2015 states that all rules and regulations in online transactions must be available for perusal no more than one click away from the main page. This is so that purchases may make an informed purchasing decision before clicking the PAY button. Any terms and conditions which are not available in this manner are not legal and cannot be enforced. So all those shitty little rules and regulations which you find on a laminated care on arrival can be ignored.

The amount of liquid in a cup of mug of tea/coffee goes a long way. Yes, you can get stain remover but are you going to leave the owner with a damp bed/carpet to sort out before the next guests arrive?

It also doesn’t matter if it is in the t&cs since it’s such an unreasonable expectation it can’t be enforced

What do you think happens when someone spills something downstairs?

No hairdryer?

Of course I would. We don't have food or drink upstairs at home.

So, if you were a smoker and you were asked not to smoke indoors, you'd do it anyway, just because, well, how dare they?

Accidents where people are expected to be eating and drinking are totally different to eating and drinking and making a mess in bedrooms, especially when you have specifically been asked not to do it. It's not that difficult to understand surely.

Would you be happy getting into bed and finding the mattress damp? Would you wonder what caused the dampness? Tea? Water? Piss?

Smoking is completely different. It’s illegal in public places and hotel rooms. Smokers are used to not smoking on most places. It can hardly be compared to eating.

Why is it different? What’s the difference between a cup of tea spilt on the landing carpet vs the sitting room carpet?

Is there also a rule about where in the house you can have sex and what kind of sex?

I’d have my water bottle by the side of the bed and I don’t drink hot drinks, the idea of having food in bed is grim to me so would never do that unless I guess in hospital/bedbound or another situation in which there was no alternative.

So I technically I would break the rules because my water would be upstairs but it has a lid!

Downstairs floors and furniture are usually more robust. Tiled or laminate floors, stain-resistant sofas, etc. It is easily mopped up.

Carpets and bedding upstairs less so.

We only eat in the kitchen so it wouldn't occur to me to take food or drink anywhere else.

I would with the exception of a glass of bedside water, as that's what I do anyway.
I think if you decide not to it's a gamble. Because if there's no mishap they'll be none the wiser, but if you spill sonething they'll come after you for the costs. They are basically telling you that food or drink related damage/cleaning is not covered for upstairs so if you spill, expect a bill. And bad feedback.

oh ok so your answer is to make up an imaginary house where spillages are only an issue upper floor 🤣 wtf?